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- Some stories in the news help us understand
the world we live in.
And some news stories are just stupid.
For those, we turn to Ronny Chieng.
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- If you're super rich,
the only thing better than spending your money
is having other rich people see you spend your money.
And the place you do that?
Auctions.
It's the place where a guy talks so fast
that he tricks you into buying crazy shit
you don't even need.
Like, one time I raised my hand at an auction
to ask where the bathroom was,
and I ended up buying a yacht.
And the yacht didn't even have a bathroom.
You're just supposed to pee over the side like a barbarian.
So auctions were always where the rich went to flex,
but now it's just getting stupid.
- [Reporter] A little piece of the Force
sold for a small fortune.
A prototype "Star Wars" action figure
fetched just under $113,000.
- Wow. - At an auction
in Pennsylvania, oh my gosh.
The rocket-firing Boba Fett figure
was originally intended to be part of a toy line
for "The Empire Strikes Back" in 1979,
but it never went into mass production.
That's because it was deemed
a potential safety hazard to children.
- That's right, $113,000 for one toy.
For that money, you could have bought all of Toys R Us.
(audience laughing)
And the worst part is you're dropping 100 grand
on a toy that wasn't even good enough to be released.
And I wonder why.
Look, I don't remember the part in "Star Wars"
where Boba Fett captures Han Solo with a red dildo.
(audience laughs) (audience applauds)
This all just shows you that "Star Wars" fans
will buy any stupid bullshit
even remotely related to "Star Wars."
And that's why I'm gonna start selling
the Luke Skywalker walker.
(audience laughs)
One thing I've learned about Americans
is that Americans love their pets.
And I'm here to say, "Why?"
Pets are kinda stupid.
I mean, you spend all your time picking up their poop,
and then, on top of that, when they die,
you have to go through all the trouble
of throwing them in your neighbor's yard?
Uh, no, thanks.
But that's just me, okay?
Other people are obsessed with their pets,
and it's, quite frankly, getting outta control.
- [Reporter] A Manhattan restaurant has rolled out
a special menu just for dogs.
- [Reporter] Check out what's on it.
A $42 rib eye steak with steamed veggies,
a lemon-drizzled salmon filet for 28 bucks,
grilled chicken breast for 16,
light bites of carrots and apples and a berry bowl.
- Why are you feeding dogs $40 steaks?
You realize dogs will eat their own poop.
In fact, if I ran this restaurant,
I would just take the poop from my last dog customer
and feed it to the next dog customer, okay?
The dogs would be just as happy, and you're recycling.
Last week in Las Vegas was the annual
Consumer Electronics Show where tech companies
give us a first look at all the junk
we'll be throwing away in six months.
And this year was the worst yet.
They have a lot of technology and no good ways to use it.
- [Reporter] A company called Monet has a cookie-sized
attachment that you can put on a diaper
and it's bluetooth enabled
so any time the diaper gets dirty,
you'll get a notification on your phone.
- [Reporter] The sensor can detect
whether there's a number one or a number two in the diaper.
- Wow, a diaper with built-in notification.
You know what else has a built-in notification?
Human shit, all right.
Trust me, it'll let you know when it's in the room.
Or even the next room, depending on what you ate, okay.
You don't need to bring bluetooth into this.
Also, who wants to get notifications on their phone
every time their baby takes a crap?
Notifications are supposed to be for good things.
I don't wanna be like, "Oh my phone's buzzing.
"I wonder if it's my food.
"Oh no, that's just my son's food
"coming out of its butt."
America has a problem with food.
You guys want your food to be cheap and fast,
but also to be fresh and healthy.
That's too many things, okay.
You can't have both.
It's like racial diversity at a ski lodge.
It doesn't exist.
And when Americans don't get everything they expect
from their food,
you end up with dumb lawsuits like this one.
- A judge has given new life to a class action lawsuit
accusing Poland Spring of selling water that's sourced
from wells and not springs.
He ruled last week that an amended complaint can proceed
with claims in eight states.
Poland Springs corporate parent,
Connecticut based Nestle Waters North America,
reiterated Tuesday that it's a meritless lawsuit
and said that the judge's decision
doesn't undermine its confidence.
- That's right, a woman is mad that Poland Spring
water doesn't come from a spring, it comes from a well.
Yeah, I just told the people in Flint, Michigan
about this story and they said, "to go (beep) yourself".
(audience laughs)
Seriously! (audience cheers)
Who actually thinks Poland Spring water
comes from a spring in Poland?
Do you also think your Smart Water went to MIT?
(audience laughs) It's all marketing!
Although to be fair, CVS water does come from CVS, okay?
It's locally sourced from the CVS break room toilet.
Trevor, you probably don't know this,
but today is Earth Day.
So to celebrate, I got you some earth.
- Whoa!
Ronny what the hell? - You're welcome, Trevor.
As we celebrate earth, we're also trying to figure out
how to save it.
Take me, for instance.
To help cool the planet, before I left my apartment today,
I turned the air conditioning on.
(audience laughs)
- No, isn't that contributing to global warming?
- No, stupid, I left the window open, of course.
(audience laughs)
But unfortunately for the earth, not everyone's solutions
are as practical as mine.
- How can humankind tackle global warming?
There are some scientists proposing a technique
that's similar to the earth wearing UV protection sunglasses
apparently to block out the sun's harmful rays.
- Basically what the proposal wants to do
is it wants to send airplanes into the stratosphere
effectively spraying it with aerosols into the atmosphere,
almost kind of like working like you're adding extra clouds.
When you do that, you essentially are trying
to block more of that sunlight.
- So you're solution to save the planet
is to spray more shit into the atmosphere.
(audience laughs) Let me ask you,
what's the point of saving earth,
if the whole thing looks like New Jersey.
(audience laughs) And also, there's no way
that will work.
It's like trying to get a coffee stain out of your shirt
by using blood.
Don't believe every life hack you read on the internet.
We don't need to dim the sun.
We already have two dim sons.
They're called Eric and Don Jr.
Hello, high five, Trevor! (audience cheers)
Come on!
- I'm not gonna high five you.
I'm not gonna high five you.
- Oh sorry, I didn't know you were a Trump guy.
(audience laughs) Anyway, it's Halloween again.
Or as I like to call it, "The Stupidest Time of Year"
'cause you've got dumb kids come to your house
begging for candy and then you have everyone else
trying to come up with a costume that's topical
but also hot.
"Oh look at me, I'm sexy quid pro quo."
(audience laughs) What does that even mean?
But Halloween also means that businesses are pretending
they're cool by coming out with spooky promotions
like this guy.
- A car wash in Ohio is doubling down as a haunted house.
Check it out.
Customers can enjoy the spooky experience
while riding through the car wash.
These actors dressed in scary Halloween costumes,
will wipe down cars and scare customers.
The frightening car wash costs 20 bucks.
- Not only are locked in your car in a haunted house,
but you're gonna go home
with what we think is the cleanest car in Ohio.
(audience laughs)
- The cleanest car in Ohio.
Who cares?
It's still in Ohio.
I'd rather have the second dirtiest car anywhere else.
More importantly, why do you have to combine
these two things?
How busy are people?
Are you really just sitting around like,
"Yo, I got time for a haunted house or a car wash.
"I can't do both." (audience laughs)
Ugh, it's Christmas again!
It's just another excuse for you people to send me
stupid pictures of your family.
Oh, great, another baby dressed as an elf.
Wow, thanks for the reminder to get a vasectomy.
(audience laughs)
But now, thanks to all these stupid world leaders
not giving a shit about climate change,
everything you love about Christmas is gonna disappear.
- In our Eye on Earth series,
we'll take you to Santa's hometown in the North Pool
where climate change is threatening the reindeer population.
- The reindeer feed, even through the winter, on lichen,
a mossy plant they dig down through the snow to get at,
except when all that thawing
and refreezing means they can't.
And when the snow turns to ice,
what happens to the reindeer?
- We have to feed them.
(audience laughs)
- You know things are bad when your entire species
depends on a guy in a weird hat.
(audience laughs)
I mean, what if he oversleeps one day?
He'll be like, "Oh shit, my alarm didn't go off.
"Now I need to dig a mass reindeer grave."
(audience groans)
And this is a big problem, okay.
Because without reindeer, how is Santa going to get around?
He's gonna have to hitchhike around the world
trading rides for handjobs, okay.
(audience laughs)
At this point, I think we can all agree that the internet
is basically giving us all brain damage.
Social media is constantly bombarding us
with information we don't care about.
Like what my friend ate for breakfast.
And what my mom's watching on tv,
and where my wife had our baby.
(audience laughs)
The point is social media is destroying everything.
Just look at this guy who went viral
for the dumbest thing possible.
- [Reporter] Carson King thought he'd get a few laughs.
- Just kinda thought it was a joke.
- [Reporter] And maybe a few bucks
on ESPN's College Game Day with a sign asking for beer money
along with his actual Venmo account.
The money started pouring in.
- I had people from Texas, Idaho, California, Massachusetts.
- [Reporter] All told, King raised
more than a million bucks. (audience laughs)
- This guy got a million dollars for beer.
Are you kidding me?
All he did was hold up a sign.
This guy does it on TV and he's a hero.
But when I held up a sign demanding money,
all of a sudden I'm a bank robber and I took hostages,
which is like a federal offense.
And the fact that this even worked was stupid, Trevor.
But not as stupid as what he did with the money.
- [Reporter] He decided he'd donate all of it,
minus the cost of one case of beer,
to the University of Iowa children's hospital.
It overlooks the Hawkeyes' football field
where home games fans turn and wave to the kids.
Hearing the news, Venmo and Busch Beer
both vowed to match the growing funds.
- Wow, he gave all that money to a children's hospital.
What an incredible insult to all the hardworking Americans
who thought it was for beer. (audience laughs)
Yo, at least he bought like one case of beer.
Although now, there's just gonna be some kid
who's $12 short of a new kidney.
"Oh, sorry Timmy, we ran out of money.
"But we did put this empty can of Bud Light inside of you.
"Let's just see what happens."
If you think this story couldn't get any stupider,
remember on the internet, no good deed goes unpunished.
- [Reporter] The Des Moines Register profiled King
and the reporter dug up a couple of offensive, racist tweets
from when King was 16 and sharing jokes
from the Comedy Central Show, "Tosh.0".
- It was brought to my attention by a reporter
for the Des Moines Register.
And once he pointed it out,
and I was really upset with myself.
- Well, what a plot twist.
The guy who raised over $2 million for sick kids,
also tweeted offensive jokes 10 years ago.
So, is he a good person or is he a bad person?
I haven't been this confused about how to feel
since I got a boner from my great grandma's yearbook photo.
(audience laughs)
But at least there's a clear lesson here.
Never donate money that you get for beer
to a children's hospital, okay.
Because you only get famous if you donate the money.
If you keep the money, no one cares and you're rich.
And if you think this story doesn't get any stupider,
then you're as wrong as the feelings I have
for my great grandmother because get this,
after Reporter exposed this guy's old tweets,
the reporter himself got his own 15 minutes of shame.
- [Reporter] The Internet users angry about the paper
digging up old tweets, did some digging of their own,
this time on reporter Aaron Calvin.
And lo and behold, they uncovered derogatory tweets
about African Americans, gay people, and women.
The Des Moines Register then fired Calvin saying,
"We took appropriate action because there's nothing
"more important than having readers' trust."
(audience applauds)
- Well, that's right.
The reporter who found racist tweets
had even worse racists tweets.
Just a classic case of the pot
calling the kettle the N word.
Which is why I always say,
"Don't point fingers on the internet
"because the internet will finger you right back."
So there you have it.
The guy who raised the money is canceled.
The reporter is canceled.
I think the beer got canceled.
And everything continues to be stupid.
- Yes, but I think it is still a happy ending here Ronny,
because at least the sick kids are gonna get that money.
- Well, actually Trevor, I dug up some of these kids' tweets
and oh man! - Oh no, don't do it!
Ronny Chieng everybody!
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